@kezo I just measured my situation, i’m sat around 12-13 feet way from my 43 inch tv, I do struggle seeing the cricket or football score, what size tv would be recommended or should i just make a trip to the opticians?
a minimum of 50 inches. My honest oppinion is go 55 inch as you will get more of an immersive viewing expierence and won’t look out of place in the average UK lounge.
For mixed viewing the recommended sitting position is at a distance where the screen fills up a minimum of 30° of your field of vision for a good experience.
Our ability to see details is not just based our clarity or whether we have 20/20 vision but also the distance which are viewing from – so if you sit to far your eyes won’t clearly make out its details and if you sit to close those details are blurred. Common sense really.
For example, If you were sitting to close to a SD or HD TV, the TV can look like your watching it through a curtain net. This is because you will be able to see the individual pixels (pixelated). By sitting futher away from TV, it increases the density of details, producing a better image. Given a 4k UHD TVs havae a substantial amount more pixels the density of them is vastly increased, which allows us to sit even closer to the TV. Tou need to be extremely close to the TV before you see any of the pixels and it becomes pixelated.
There becomes a point if you sit too far away from a 4k UHD TV you won’t see the absolute full glory of any UHD content. However because 4k TV’s have a much higher pixel density it will not only provide better clarity and will also upscale lower content such as SD and HD close to 4k anyway. Another advantage is these TVs capability to show High Dynamic Range in movies or content that allows it, which provide a realism to what any HDR content. Another advantage is you get Dolby vision that further increase the viewing experience along with a bunch of other codecs such as HDR10/+ etc. So although the majority of British households don’t see the full potential of viewing UHD, there are many advantages of owning a UHD TV as you can see from the couple examples given. Ontop of that manufacturers put more effort in TV’s supporting 4k, which is the norm today. However its worth noting the old saying you get what you pay for really without going daft.
Moving on, yes theres more 🙂 The large majority of homes do not have dedicated theatre rooms its insane to follow the 30 degree rule for mixed viewing or 40 degree if you watch mainly movies, to be able to watch UHD content in its absolute full glory as you shall see at the end ?
So lets get to the nitty gritty – In your typical lounge its permissable to follow whats known as the 20 degree field of vision rule when selecting the closest size TV to buy. By doing this you can retain a better clarity image, that is much crisper than your typical HD TV, even though your eyes can’t fully process true 4k and that outlined above. The other benifit is you won’t need a visit to the opticians.
To see what size TV you would need for a 30 degree field of view with absolute true UHD the calculation is (viewing distance in inches/1.6) I’ll let you work that out!
The 2021 Sony A80J is a cracking OLED TV BTW. The 2022 LG C2 evo 55 is the next price up and you can get the 2021 LG 55 gallery series that I have for the same price if you want OLED